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Global Warming Adversely Affects World Famous Kesar Mango Production In Gujarat
World famous kesar mangoes have gone down in number this year as their production has been adversely affected in Gujarat due to global warming effects. Just five years ago, Talala market yard, one of...
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Vitamin C And Insulin Combination May Stop Diabetes Damage
Researchers at Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center have found a link between taking vitamin C with insulin and stopping blood vessel damage caused by type 1 diabetes. While neither therapy produced...
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Better Breast Cancer Drugs may be Produced from Vitamin A Derivative
Researchers from the University of Chicago report in the June 25, 2009, issue of the journal ICell/I that retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A, could lead to a new set of drug targets for treating...
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Vitamin C Deficiency Linked to Sluggish Mental Development in Babies
Vitamin C deficiency may impair the mental development of newborn babies, according to a new study. The study showed that guinea pigs, which lack vitamin C, have 30 per cent less hippocampal neurones...
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Cellular Effects of Vitamin A Overdose and Deficiency Explained
Vitamin A plays a crucial role in energy production within cells, according to research published online in the IFASEB Journal/I. The research also explains why too much or too little has a complex...
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Research Team Links Genetic Defect to Vitamin A Deficiency in Women
Nearly half of the British women might be lacking an important source of vitamin A due to previously undetected genetic defect. The vitamin helps the immune system ward off common infections such as...
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Vitamin C may be Able to Reprogram Adult Cells into Stem Cells
A new study says that vitamin C helps boost the reprogramming of adult cells into stem cells. Senior study author Dr. Duanqing Pei, South China Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative...
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Superfruit With Three Times Orange's Vitamin C Hits UK Markets
Fruit markets in the UK have begun selling an African fruit, which has three times the vitamin C of an orange and twice as much calcium as milk. The baobab fruit has been revered in Africa for...
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Maternal Mortality Not Reduced With Vitamin A Supplementation
A trial in Ghana has revealed that vitamin A supplementation does nothing to reduce maternal mortality, . The finding contradicts previous findings from a trial in Nepal which showed a 44 percent...
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Maternal Vitamin A Deficiency Linked to Poor Lung Function in Child
Scientists have discovered that deficiency of Vitamin A in the mother's body may affect the lung function in the child. Scientists at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted a...
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Gene Network Tied With Vitamin A Deficiency and Lung Birth Defects Found
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered the mechanism responsible for the failure of the lungs to form as a result of vitamin A/retinoic acid (RA) deficiency. The...
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Sugar Free Mangoes for Diabetics in UP
With an aim to lure diabetics, farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Malihabad District grew a mango variety brought from Florida, which has 75 percent less sugar content than regular mangoes. Horticulturalists...
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Vitamin C Blocks Tumor Growth
Researchers from Otago University at Christchurch have found that vitamin C has the potential to block tumor growth. The study found that tumors had 40% less amount of vitamin C than the surrounding...
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Study Shows That Sunscreens Which Contain Vitamin A Do Not Cause Skin Cancer
Study points out that sunscreens which contain retinyl palmitate (vitamin A) do not cause cancer. "Earlier this year, the Environmental Working Group issued a health warning that sunscreens containing...
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Vitamin A Makes Breastfeeding With HIV More Risky: Study
Scientists warn against the prescription of vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements to HIV-positive women who breastfeed, primarily because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk. This...
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Intake of Vitamin C Enhances Mood of Acutely Hospitalised Patients
A new study has revealed that treatment with vitamin C rapidly improves the emotional state of acutely hospitalised patients. Researchers at the Montreal's Jewish General Hospital (JGH) carried out...
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Vitamin A Pill Can Prevent Age-related Blindness: Study
A new study has revealed that a drug based on vitamin A could prevent millions from going blind as they get older. Researchers found that the drug fenretinide, found it halted the advance of...
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Vitamin C is the Potential Life-saving Treatment for Sepsis
Vitamin C can not only prevent the onset of sepsis, but can also reverse the disease, says a new research. According to Dr. Karel Tyml and his colleagues at The University of Western Ontario and...
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Vitamin A Supplement Decreases the Death Caused by Diarrhea and Measles
A recent research has brought into light that administration of vitamin supplement reduces the incidence of measles and diarrhea and ultimately save lives. Most of the low and middle-income countries...
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Vitamin A Undoes Alcohol Damage
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) caused by the impact of alcohol on young embryos can be halted by vitamin A, suggests Abraham Fainsod, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The professor of...
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